Earlier this week Issa Rae signed an eight-figure overall deal with WarnerMedia, and now comes word that another of Hollywood’s funniest women, Tracy Oliver, has also inked an eight-figure pact. The “Girls Trip” scribe’s multi-year overall deal will see her Tracy Yvonne Productions developing TV and feature film projects for Apple “with an emphasis on diverse and meaningful stories,” The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
Oliver made history as the first Black woman to write a movie to gross over $100 million at the box office with “Girls Trip.” She co-wrote the comedy about four life-long female friends who travel to New Orleans to attend the Essence Music Festival with “black-ish” creator Kenya Barris.
“I knew that the movie was going to do well because I knew that there was an audience for it, but I was not thinking $100 million. I still can’t believe it, because there are a lot of movies with all white casts that haven’t hit $100 million,” Oliver told NBC News in 2017. “There are actually not that many black female writers in the studio space,” she observed. “Becoming the first [to reach the $100 million film milestone] pointed that out to me.”
“Little,” “The Sun Is Also a Star,” and “Barbershop: The Next Cut” are also among Oliver’s big screen credits. She developed and exec produces BET+’s remake of “The First Wives Club,” which has been renewed for a second season, and has a Netflix series in the works with Amy Poehler about four female friends who met at NYU.